“Great civilizations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives.” The great historian Arnold Toynbee concluded this in his 12-volume magnum opus A Study of History. It was an exploration of ...

Before he dismantled Nepal’s political elite, Balendra Shah was destroying his opponents in underground rap battles. More ...

A rare visit to a Khmer temple on Thailand and Cambodia’s border showed how deadly clashes between the two countries have scarred a heritage site.

Ancient inscriptions carved into Egyptian tombs reveal a visitor from India. One name appears again and again inside the ...

Iran’s ancient cultural sites face growing threats from war, environmental damage, and limited preservation resources, putting irreplaceable parts of humanity’s shared historical heritage at risk.

Researchers have discovered 30 inscriptions written in Indian languages, which provide new evidence that visitors from India ...

How old is Indian civilization, and can it even be described as a single civilization at all? This episode traces the deep history of South Asia - from the Indus Valley Civilization and ancient ...

The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

In southern Russia, archaeologists have uncovered an ancient board game that may hold the key to the origins of chess.

The newly released publications span a wide intellectual and cultural spectrum, reflecting the richness of Tamil civilization across centuries.

NEW DELHI – For thousands of years, Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, and Lothal, the great cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, were the center of one of the world’s earliest and most advanced urban ...

Indian journalists and Chinese researchers from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences exchange ideas on China-India bilateral relations for better mutual understanding, in Beijing on Nov 7. [Photo ...